Ex-husband Pleads Guilty To Stalking

Neil Rosen, acquitted of murder in October, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the aggravated stalking of his ex-wife and writing a bad check for a Rolex watch.

Rosen, 27, a former Coral Springs resident who now lives in his native Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to 221 days in jail and five years of probation by Broward Circuit Judge Stanton Kaplan.

Rosen was charged with writing a check on a closed account for $3,999 to buy a Rolex a year ago today.

Two months later, he was arrested and charged with the August 1991 murder of a Michelle Davis, a waitress and part-time model who was smothered in her Weston apartment.

Evidence in the murder trial included threatening calls Rosen made to Davis, his former girlfriend, before she was killed. But a jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder.

In December, Rosen was back in jail, this time in Brooklyn, held on a no-bail warrant issued in Broward that charged him with aggravated stalking.

Rosen had made a series of menacing phone calls to his ex-wife, Sheri Lynn Garner. The two, who were divorced in 1991, had slept together the night he was acquitted of Davis` murder, but the renewed relationship quickly soured.

Tapes of Rosen`s phone calls were played in Kaplan`s courtroom on Jan. 15, three days after Rosen was extradited to Fort Lauderdale.

``I`m going to pull your f------ teeth out, one by one,`` he said in one. Several other messages were just as graphically violent.

Kaplan at that time denied motions by Rosen`s attorney, John Howes, to set bail for the aggravated stalking charge.

At sentencing, Rosen was given credit for the time he had spent in jail, meaning he will probably be free, on probation, in mid-March.